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Patent EP-0486040-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HUCK MANFRED
IPC: F16G11/00
Filed: 1991-11-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting device for cables (2, 3), especially for cable intersections of networks, having an integral device body (4) which has at least two through channels (6, 7) (which are separated from one another at least in places by walls (5)) for the cables (2, 3), and having securing elements (8, 9), which fix the cables (2, 3) in the through channels (6, 7). In order to achieve a safe and reliable cable connection with simple production and assembly, and with high strength and low intrinsic weight, the securing elements (8, 9) are constructed as threaded screws which extend in the lateral direction in each case through at least one of the through channels (6, 7) or one of the cables (2, 3). Although the securing elements (8, 9) pass through the respective cable (2, 3) in the lateral direction, as a result of their construction with a thread, for example with a self-tapping or self-forming thread, there is no material damage to the cable. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0443826-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LOVE SAMUEL D
IPC: A63F9/24
Filed: 1991-02-20
Abstract: A safety alertness monitoring system is provided for maintaining an operator alert. A switching means is provided which must be actuated by the operator within an adjustable time period to prevent a first alarm from being activated. Upon detection of this first alarm, the driver must actuate the switching means, indicating his alertness and restarting the first time period, otherwise after expiration of a second time period a second alarm will be activated to further alert the operator and passengers. This second alarm will remain activated until the switching means is actuated restarting the process. The present invention also includes a waiting mode whereby the timer can be deactivated while driving in congested traffic. During the waiting mode, a third alarm is activated to provide some alerting function. The device also includes a first electrical output which is usually ON, but is turned OFF when the buzzer sounds. This output can be used to supply power to, for example, games for the enjoyment of children. Since the driver in effect "controls" the power supplied to the first output, additional interaction of passengers with the driver is ensured, thus further raising the alertness of the driver. 
     Additionally, an entertainment/educational game is provided which teaches players thereof about geography. The safety alertness monitoring system can be used as a timer with the game. The game includes a playing surface having a geographical area divided into subregions illustrated thereon, the geographical area and subregions having geographically significant shapes. A plurality of elongated, flexible members (e.g., colored strings) having fixed, equal lengths are provided as playing pieces, one for each player (or team). An object of the game is to accumulate points while attaching ones playing piece to the playing surface within subregions to achieve some predefined goal (e.g., extending one's playing piece across the geographical area or forming a loop with one's playing piece), while attaching one's playing piece to at least a minimum number of subregions. Players draw cards which include indicia corresponding to one of the subregions. Players attach a portion of their playing piece to the playing surface within a subregion if they can locate the subregion within a preset time period. Players accumulate points by identifying the subregions on the playing surface and by reciting additional information about the selected subregion (e.g., if the subregion is a state or country, by reciting the capital of the state or country) also within the preset time period. When played within an automobile, the operator can actuate the timer, which assists in maintaining a level of alertness in the operator.
Patent EP-0446054-A2 (EP)
Inventor: NAKATANI YOSHIHIRO C O TAMAGAW
IPC: G11B27/34
Filed: 1991-03-07
Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording an information signal on a recording medium is arranged to be controlled according to control information read out from an external storage device which is attachable and detachable to and from the recording apparatus, so that the apparatus is not only simply operable but also has diverse functions. One of the features of the apparatus lies in that the timing of start or stop of recording can be synchronized with that of a signal combining action or a signal fade-in or fade-out action.
Patent EP-0459641-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SANDERSON JOHN RONALD
IPC: C10M111/04
Filed: 1991-05-09
Abstract: Synthetic lubricant base stocks comprising reduced oligomers prepared from an olefin composition comprising a linear olefin having from 10 to 24 carbon atoms additionally contain an alkyl-substituted cyclohexanol or alkyl-substituted decahydronaphthalene, whose alkyl groups have 10 to 24 carbon atoms. 
     These base stocks are prepared by contacting the olefin composition and phenol or naphthalene with an acidic montmorillonite clay and hydrogenating the resulting oligomer mixture.
Patent EP-0467562-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LOCKERY HARRY E
IPC: G01G3/14
Filed: 1991-07-03
Abstract: A strain gauge transducer system, such as a load cell based weighing system, is protected against moisture related errors by an electrically conducting guard circuit (61) for terminals and other parts subject to wet or humid conditions. The guard circuit is connected to an electrical potential close to a potential of signal terminals in a strain gauge bridge, for instance to a centre tap in a power supply (58',55") for the strain gauge bridge.
Patent EP-0482930-A2 (EP)
Inventor: RICHARD BENNETT M
IPC: E21B43/04
Filed: 1991-10-24
Abstract: The apparatus allows mixing of a solid and a fluid continuously to facilitate downhole operations, especially gravel housing. The apparatus comprises a solids hopper (12), with preferably an internal auger (14), to meter the solids flowrate. The solids drop into a second feeder (24) which empties into a mixing chamber (10). Liquid can be directed into an annular space (30) formed in the mixing chamber (10) around the periphery of the second auger (24), or could be piped into the second auger itself. A triplex pump (P) is connected to the mixing chamber (10) and draws the mixed solid and fluid and pumps it to sufficient pressures for use in a wellbore.
Patent EP-0492896-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TAM KWOK CHEONG
IPC: A61B6/03
Filed: 1991-12-11
Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for reconstructing a 3D CT image of an object from incomplete x-ray cone beam projection data, additionally employing object boundary information from a separate optical scan. A 3D image of the object is reconstructed slice-by-slice by employing, for each slice, a 2D reconstruction procedure for example, filtered backprojection, on the values of the 2D projection images in the plane of the slice to calculate a 2D image of the object for each of the slices.
Patent EP-0493345-A2 (EP)
Inventor: VENANZONI MARCELLO
IPC: F24H1/40
Filed: 1991-12-18
Abstract: This invention relates to a wall-mounted gas boiler, particularly useful for domestic employment, of the type comprising a pre-mix burner (13), a heat exchanger (12), a circuit (8) for allowing the combustion air to circulate, means (5) for causing said air to circulate, a chamber (18) for mixing air with the gas, in which chamber an opening (19) is provided, upstream of said mixing chamber (18) in the circuit (8) for the circulation of air, said opening being closed by valve means (20) and allowing the dilution air to flow towards the openings (21) without becoming mixed with the gas at the point corresponding to the mixing chamber (18), means (22, 23 and 24) being provided for changing the amount of gas introduced in proportion to the flowrate of the air flowing through the same. 
     The boiler according to this invention can also be provided with a single-piece container (2) having a pressurized inner chamber (9), inside which both the burner (13) and the heat exchanger (12) are arranged, and an outer depressurized chamber (8) through which the air sucked in by the fan (5) flows, the outflow of smokes from the inner chamber (9) and the inflow of air into the outer chamber (8) occurring through an upper coaxial pipe (14); a closure member (3) of the container, said member being provided with a double seal for closing both the inner chamber (9) and the outer chamber (8) tightly; and a lower Archimedean screw (4) inside which the fan (5) is housed.
Patent EP-0495376-A2 (EP)
Inventor: COAN MICHAEL H
IPC: G01N33/554
Filed: 1992-01-08
Abstract: A method of controlling the amount of a biologically active substance binding to a cell surface having both receptors to the substance and receptors for the Fc domain of an antibody that can complex with the substance or other antibodies that can complex with the substance. By exploiting the generally more numerous Fc receptor sites, substance binding can be increased and/or controlled. Method contemplates controlling amounts of substances such as cytokines, hormones, and growth factors that are associated with cells such as monocytes, macrophages, granulocytes, B cells, T cells, and platelets. Method is illustrated using conjugated antibodies to tissue necrosis factor (TNF) to increase the binding of TNF to monocytes.
Patent EP-0498175-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MEYER HORST
IPC: H02G3/12
Filed: 1992-01-15
Abstract: The built-in furniture box is designed in the shape of a hollow wall receptacle and holds at least one plug socket (1) and/or a switch and/ or a communications insert, and a covering frame (2) on the visible side is fitted detachably to it. The hollow wall receptacle is formed in two pieces from a frame-like upper part (3) and a box-like base (4) which can be connected to the upper part (3) in a fixed position. At least one part (6a, 6b) through which a cable can pass is cut out and/or inserted in the upper part (3) and in the base (5), and, at the same time, the parts (6a, 6b) through which cables can pass form a stress-relieving means of passing cables through in the region in which the upper part (3) and the base (4) abut. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0499796-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PROKOPP WOLFGANG
IPC: E05B81/64
Filed: 1992-01-18
Abstract: In a safety locking device for a door leaf of a swinging or pivoting door, a rotary-latch lock having a detent pawl is incorporated in the door leaf, its rotary latch corresponding to a key collar fastened to the door frame and having a normally closed locking ring. To assist a main drive for opening and closing the door leaf in terms of a reliable engagement of the rotary latch in its main catch during the closing of the door leaf, a plurality of door-closing aid devices are furthermore provided, whilst for opening the rotary-latch lock an opener drive acting on the detent pawl and an exterior door handle uncouplable from the latter by locking by means of a lock cylinder are provided. Finally, there is also a mechanical operative connection between the emergency cock prescribed for omnibus doors and a blocking lever of the key collar, which makes it possible to open the locking ring of the latter temporarily by hand in the event of an impact of the door leaf by cancelling the mechanical support of a movable part of the key collar forming the abutment for the rotary latch. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0521236-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SAWABE TAKAO
IPC: G11B19/02
Filed: 1992-02-06
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for identifying signal format automatically identify the format of the signal read from any one of a plurality of disks of different signal formats can automatically be identified without use of any particular circuit for signal format identification, for use in a disk player capable of playing any one of such disks of different signal format. In operation, the information reading point of a pickup is translated to be positioned in a program area of the disk and the rotation of a loaded disk is started. Each time the rotational speed of the disk comes almost equal to a normal rotational speed of each of the plurality of disks of different signal format, it is judged whether or not a signal processing corresponding to the signal format of one of the plurality of disks of different signal formats, whose normal rotational speed is almost equal to a current value of the rotational speed of the disk, is appropriate for processing a read-out signal of the pickup. The signal format is identified by executing the judgment successively.
Patent EP-0500084-A2 (EP)
Inventor: HAYASHI MASATAKE
IPC: G09F9/30
Filed: 1992-02-19
Abstract: Plasma addressed liquid crystal display devices in which liquid crystals cells serve as a display element and plasma discharge regions for driving them are adjacently arranged, a space ranging over all the scanning units is provided. Such a space has no partitions in the discharge regions. The discharge regions are formed as a continuous space over the entire screen, or every plural scanning units. On the base plate (2), discharge electrode pairs A₁,K₁...A n ,K n ) for generating discharge plasma are provided. Thus, discharge plasma generated in the vicinity of each discharge electrode pair serves as a scanning unit. The liquid crystal cell functions as a sampling capacitor, and the discharge plasma functions as a sampling capacitor. By scanning of the discharge plasma, an image display is achieved.
Patent EP-0508230-A2 (EP)
Inventor: LENZ HANS
IPC: F21S8/00
Filed: 1992-03-27
Abstract: With its internal circumference, a sleeve ring for sealing a fluorescent lamp or a protective tube of a fluorescent lamp, or for sealing the gap with respect to the mount, grips the external circumference of the fluorescent lamp or the protective tube to be sealed, or bears against the mount, and for this purpose carries a seal with respect to the mount on its internal circumference or the end face. According to the invention, these seals are no longer designed as a pinch ring, but are designed as air-permeable, but dustproof sealings resembling a flocking coating. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0519498-A2 (EP)
Inventor: KOKUBO MASARU HITACHI KOYASUDA
IPC: H04L25/22
Filed: 1992-06-19
Abstract: A terminal apparatus for full duplex transmission of digital data comprising an echo canceller having FIR and IIR type filters (1, 2) and also comprising a filter convergence controller. The filter convergence controller performs its converging operation over both of the filters in a first duration of a communication starting sequence from the start of transmission from a local terminal to a remote terminal to the detection of the convergence of the echo canceller to a certain extent, stops the converging operation of the IIR type filter in a second duration of the communication starting sequence from the detection of the convergence to the detection of synchronization with the remote terminal, and again performs the converging operation of the both filters in a third duration after the detection of the synchronization.
Patent EP-0522561-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ISHIKAWA TOSHIKAZU
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1992-07-09
Abstract: This invention has as its object to provide a method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle air conditioner, which can obtain a combination of an outlet air flow rate V a  and an outlet air temperature T o , which is desirable for comfort of a passenger, under a condition of air-conditioning control based on a heat balance equation. 
     In order to achieve this object, this invention provides a method of controlling a vehicle air conditioner, which controls the outlet air flow rate and the outlet air temperature of air-conditioning air while balancing between the heat amount supplied from an air conditioner for adjusting the air-conditioning air into a passenger room, and the heat load acting on a vehicle, including the first step of obtaining, from a heat balance equation, a plurality of combinations of the outlet air flow rates V a  and the outlet air temperatures T o  necessary for maintaining the passenger room temperature to be a predetermined target temperature, the second step of calculating comfort indices each representing the comfort level of a passenger on the basis of state amounts of factors which influence comfort felt by the passenger in the passenger room, and the plurality of combinations of the outlet air flow rates V a  and the outlet air temperatures T o  obtained in the first step, and the third step of searching a combination of the outlet air flow rate and the outlet air temperature, which can provide a comfort index closest to an optimal value of the comfort indices calculated in the second step.
Patent EP-0526883-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUZUKI FUJIO
IPC: C07K14/51
Filed: 1992-08-05
Abstract: A novel chondromodulin-II protein having a molecular weight of about 16,000 dalton on SDS-PAGE and capable of stimulating the growth of chondrocytes with or without FGF and promoting the differential potency of said cells, and a pharmaceutical composition containing said protein as an active ingredient.
Patent EP-0542292-A2 (EP)
Inventor: ONDA MASAAKI
IPC: C12N9/12
Filed: 1992-11-13
Abstract: A method for producing 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, which comprises (1) reacting adenosine 5'-triphosphate with a sulfate donor in the presence of heat-stable adenosine 5'-triphosphate sulfurylase to produce adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, and (2) reacting said adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate with adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of heat-stable adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate kinase; and another method for producing 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate which comprises (1) reacting adenosine 5'-triphosphate with a sulfate donor in the presence of adenosine 5'-triphosphate sulfurylase to produce adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, (2) reacting said adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate with adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate kinase to produce 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate and adenosine 5'-diphosphate, and (3) converting said adenosine 5'-diphosphate into adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the presence of an enzyme capable of converting adenosine 5'-diphosphate into adenosine 5'-triphosphate and a phosphate donor are disclosed.
Patent EP-0502741-A2 (EP)
Inventor: MUKOHJIMA HITOSHI
IPC: H02N2/14
Filed: 1992-03-05
Abstract: A predetermined inductance element L is connected serially or in parallel with a self-electrostatic capacitance C d  of a vibrator which constructs a vibration driven motor, a serial resonance or a parallel resonance of the above LC circuit is used, and thereby providing an optimum driving circuit for the vibration driven motor.
Patent EP-0505217-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SACCARDO DENNIS
IPC: G07C1/20
Filed: 1992-03-23
Abstract: A security device (10) adapted to be located within premises under surveillance and with a form of access from the exterior of the premises can be actuated by a person carrying out the surveillance, includes means (13) which can be actuated by such person and the actuation is stored in the device (10) and can be selectively displayed on a screen (20) at the interior of the premises. 
     The device (10) may have an infa-red sensor (13) located within a window (12) or the like and the person carrying out the surveillance may have an infa-red transmitter (16) whereby the sensor can be actuated.
Patent EP-0507482-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SUOMINEN TIMO
IPC: H04M19/04
Filed: 1992-03-23
Abstract: A telephone, for example a cellular radio telephone, is provided with means for generating a ringing tone upon detection of an incoming call, the volume of the ringing tone being controlled depending on the level of ambient noise to ensure that the ringing tone volume is sufficient to be heard above the ambient noise while not being too loud to startle. This is achieved by using the telephone's microphone (1) to detect the ambient noise level, comparing this with reference values stored in the memory of the telephone's microprocessor (6) and providing a control signal to the telephone's loudspeaker (8) to produce a ringing tone of a suitable volume.
Patent EP-0526969-A2 (EP)
Inventor: SHORT LEE O
IPC: G01C21/00
Filed: 1992-05-29
Abstract: A method, that may be implemented in software, that selects tactically sound paths for vehicles from an initial position to a goal position across a piece of terrain. The method searches through possible paths before selecting a desired path. It calculates a numerical heuristic to select promising paths to explore. By exploring only a few of the most promising paths, the method maintains high computational efficiency. Specifically, a list of paths is created (12) that begins with a vehicle's initial section and moves to terrain sections surrounding the vehicle. The list of paths is sorted (13) using a minimum estimated total cost value to goal representing estimates of the relative combat values of different pieces of terrain while the vehicle is within engagement range of hostile positions. The total cost value is defined as the path's current cost value plus the estimated cost value from the current position to the goal. Terrain cost values are defined for each of the sections, using a terrain tactical evaluation function. Each of the first three elements of the list of paths is then examined in order (14), and if any of the paths has reached the vehicle's goal position, this path is selected and the method is complete (15, 16). Otherwise, new paths are then generated (17), by moving from the position at the end of the path to each of the adjacent terrain sections. These new paths are added to the list of paths, the original three paths are deleted, and the method (steps 13, 14, 15, 16) is repeated until the goal position is reached.
Patent EP-0536900-A2 (EP)
Inventor: TATSUTA KUNIAKI
IPC: C07D261/14
Filed: 1992-09-10
Abstract: Reaction of a 2-aminoisoxazole (A, where X is H or OR 1 ) with a thiocyanate and an acyl halide (or their reaction product) and rearrangement of the product gives a 1,2,4-thiadiazole compound (B or C):
     The compound B (X=H) can be oxidised and esterified to obtain C (X=OR 1 ). The 3-substituent of compound C (-CH 2   . CO 2 R 1 ) may be converted into
     The thiadiazole compounds may be used to prepare acylating agents for preparation of therapeutically useful 7-acylaminocephalosporins.
Patent EP-0500468-A2 (EP)
Inventor: AOYAMA KEIZO
IPC: G11C11/418
Filed: 1992-02-20
Abstract: A dual-port memory circuit includes a memory cell (11) having a pair of nodes, a first port (23, 25, 31, 33) having a first pair of bit lines and a first word line connected to the memory cell, and a second port (22, 24, 32, 34) having a second pair of bit lines and a second word line connected to the memory cell. A detection circuit (100) detects that data is written from one of the first and second ports in a state where the memory cell is selected by both the first and second ports. A control circuit (100) decreases a level of one of the nodes in response to a detection output of the detection circuit.
Patent EP-0511176-A2 (EP)
Inventor: GENTILE GIANPIERO
IPC: B03B9/06
Filed: 1992-04-09
Abstract: The solid urban waste is subjected to forced cooling (34) and the material which has been hardened and made fragile by the cooling is ground (38), in order then to carry out the ballistic and magnetic grading of the ground material; the cooling is obtained by the use of liquid nitrogen.
Patent EP-0527713-A2 (EP)
Inventor: PALMIERI VINCENZO
IPC: C23C14/38
Filed: 1992-08-12
Abstract: A method of providing a thin film for lining quarter-wave resonant cavities of copper comprises the deposition of a superconducting material, in particular niobium, in the form of a micro-layer having a substantially constant thickness covering both the cylindrical surface of the cavity and its bottom formed of a plane plate, by biased-diode d.c. sputtering through emitting cathodes in a form fitting geometrically the surfaces to be lined.